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catholiccath‧o‧lic /ˈkæθəlɪk/ adjective catholicOrigin: 1300-1400 French catholique, from Late Latin, from Greek katholikos ‘general, universal’, from katholou ‘in general’, from kata ‘by’ + holos ‘whole’ - He certainly felt that the culture of the state should reflect the fact that it was 93 percent Roman catholic.
- I became catholic in my lusts.
► catholic tastes She has catholic tastes (=likes a lot of different things). NOUN► church· As he marched south Clovis was careful not to alienate the catholic Church or its saints.· The attack was within the context of a speech largely praising the Roman catholic church in Ireland.· The Roman catholic church, in episcopal statements, unequivocally condemns violence North or South.· At this level, the power of the Roman catholic church bore directly on the institutions of government.· The Roman catholic church is financed out of voluntary contributions.· Euric, therefore, was able to combine politics and religion, in persecuting the catholic Church.· In addition he records Clovis's concern for the property of the catholic Church, again citing earlier hagiographical texts in support of his case.· A century later Gregory of Tours treated this description as representing the normal state of the catholic Church under Euric. ► school· In a similar survey undertaken in 1974, Greeley found the effectiveness of catholic schools either the same or slightly increased.· In the decline the church had experienced in the intervening years, fewer catholic school children had opted out.· Clearly, the follow-up study was more favourable to the defenders of catholic schools than to opponents.· The burden of the message was that good catholic parents sent their children to catholic schools. including a very wide variety of things: She has catholic tastes (=likes a lot of different things). a catholic collection of records |